distraction

[iridium]

things are pretty rough right now, and i could use some little distraction, some other thoughts, memories that aren't so hard and sad. so, here's this. *little smile* i think i'd prefer good memories, right now...

As you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, even if we don't speak often, please feel free (but not obligated) to post a comment with a memory of you and me. It can be anything you want, either good or bad.

When you're finished, if you'd like, post this little paragraph on your blog.

Comments

[fyfer.livejournal.com]

I remember watching Buffy many times in your room, and hugging you good night after the show and getting my hair tangled in your spiky collar.

[iridium.livejournal.com]

*laugh* thank you.
it's been years since i watched Buffy, and i was thinking it might be fun to pick up a DVD and watch a couple of episodes sometime.
and yeah, that happens all the time with that collar. makes things exciting.

[queersolitude.livejournal.com]

I remember us playing phone tag about two years ago when you were quasi in town for that one concert in the desert (doh! whats the name?)

I was both excited (about the possibility of hanging out) and paranoid and maladjusted (to my new downtown LA neighborhood).

[iridium.livejournal.com]

it was Coachella, about...a year and a half ago? it was may. i seem to remember leaving you some sort of conference-call voicemail with mrcairo.

and one of these days we should actually meet and all...

[queersolitude.livejournal.com]

yes!

i LOVE the bay area. i hope to go up there again as soon as i can find any (in)valid excuse!

[iridium.livejournal.com]

there's always *something* going on around here. i'll likely be traveling a lot more next year, but hopefully i'll catch you somewhere in there.

[jencallisto]

i would run into you around MIT, usually around the Haus, and i would stroke your hair and your would close your eyes and smile, and we would always talk about hanging out but somehow it never did really happen...

i'm so glad it's been happening now that we're both on this coast.

[iridium.livejournal.com]

*smile*
me too.

thank you.

[vagabonda.livejournal.com]

i remember.....meeting you your freshman year making pankakes for sunday breakfast for Roast, and teasing you about the drawings on your arms and thinking "this girl with all the safety pins is pretty cool"....driving way out into the boonies of western MA and gowing swimming in the rain and getting stuck in a church watching this beautiful lightning storm.....painting beautiful skies of purple and blue together.....going on moonlit Bottichelli angelic adventures and sitting in my room watching colorful mountains + listening to old Bob Marley albums, with both of us getting up in the same moment to go find Alison, whom you accused of being entirely too psychic.

[iridium.livejournal.com]

*laugh* i don't draw on my arms nearly so much anymore. but i make other kinds of art, so that's good. still have safety pins on everything, too.

the empty stone church was amazing, in the thunderstorm. and i remember walking through the woods over mountain-bike trails to get to the lake, and going swimming in the murky lakewater.

*smile* thank you, for the memories. and the painting, and the adventures.

[violin.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... I remember sitting on the sandbar in bowman at night, wandering around east atlanta, meeting someone else who knew of Mary Prankster, talking of cannibal appocalypses and bbq appocalypses, wandering through athens, thai brunch, full-body hugs.

I need more-- get cracking! ::smile::

::hug:: hope things look up soon.

[iridium.livejournal.com]

i've been missing my dark middle-of-nowhere woods, and the river, and that sandbank.

i'll be in Georgia for christmas, looks like, and i'll hopefully be able to fly in a couple of days early and have good time for visiting. i'm looking forward to seeing you.

[coraline]

do not put golden baby in cake!

(tell me if you don't get this one...)

[fyfer.livejournal.com]

i was going to mention that one too. :)

[iridium.livejournal.com]

clearly i should throw more mardi gras parties. :)

[iridium.livejournal.com]

*laugh* i remember, now -- i think that's what you (or fyfer, maybe) wrote the last time i posted a memory-meme.
i should have another mardi gras party one of these days, too. i did have a king cake this year...

[coraline]

yeah, i'm repeating myself. but it's such a good line! (and memory :)

mmmmmmmm king cake.

[iridium.livejournal.com]

awwww yeah. :)

[klingonlandlady.livejournal.com]

It was nice sitting in front of the Cube sharing a drink, watching the people go by on the Esplanade.

[iridium.livejournal.com]

it was indeed, and thank you.
i quite enjoyed your paintings on the inside of the Cube, too.

[androidqueen.livejournal.com]

i will always remember you grinning like a hatter in your big glasses. :)

[iridium.livejournal.com]

*laugh* that's a good way to be remembered.
thank you!

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

dancing on "la contessa", to the rock opera played on a ukelele :)

[iridium.livejournal.com]

i'm glad we danced. :)

thank you!

[coendou.livejournal.com]

I remember working refreshments for LSC, and you were talking about course 3, and you were very, very excited about it. You might have mentioned metallurgy. And I concluded from this conversation and the fact that my freshman roommate Vanessa was also very, very excited about being course 3 (she LOVED her some polymers) that all course 3 majors are, like super-in-love with their major and very, very excited about it.

[iridium.livejournal.com]

i probably did mention metallurgy. *smile* i do like metal, and blacksmithing has a lot to do with me ending up going into course 3.

and, wow. LSC. *laugh* i do also just enjoy working concession stands, i think.

thank you!

[nacht_musik]

unexpected bonding over waffle house with this frosh who had started hanging out on my SO's floor...
... and a paper airplane. =)

[iridium.livejournal.com]

*smile* ... thank you.

also: that goes down as one more reason i like waffle house, i think. *grin*

[lerta.livejournal.com]

Hm...my most most recent memory is trading you chocolate for champagne this past Steer Roast where were were hanging out by 414.

Oh, I just managed to remember a good one... We had a (relatively) long zephyr conversation when I was in St. Mary's, SC... (I think that's where I was) when I was sailing up the East Coast. I was so horribly lonely and talking to you made me feel a lot better. I actually still have it in my zephyr logs. We talked about sailing and some other stuff. It was good.

[iridium.livejournal.com]

thank you! ...chocolate and champagne, claiming my little space in the lounge by 414, and being there with friends who were glad to see me...that did a lot to make Roast good for me again.

if you've got the conversation in your zephyr logs, i'd love to see it...i don't think i log my zephyrs, and sometimes i wish i did. *smile* i'm glad i was able to do some good, then.

[snowninja7.livejournal.com]

Aeons ago... watching snippets ('cause I usually only dropped in for a bit because of being lame) of awesomely bad movies flopped on the couch in Victor's room at the Haus.

More recently... playing on the hand-powered cable car at the Eco-Lodge in Mindo. Watching all of the little children on the bus stare at your (bleach stripey) and Colin's (electric blue) hair.

[iridium.livejournal.com]

*smile* just called victor up this evening. it's been too long since i talked with him.

the hand-powered cable car was _awesome_. i want one, plus a gorgeous cloud-forest river to go with it.

thank you.

[roozle.livejournal.com]

Being short of memories of you, I shall have to invent one:

How nice of you to take me to the airport after a weekend of wandering around and showing my your city. Good food, beautiful art, time to see what you've been making, time to breathe different air and see the sun set into a different ocean. This time when we exchange hard close goodbye hugs it means "I'm glad I know you better" instead of "I wish I knew you better".

[iridium.livejournal.com]

meep. *smile* i am...touched.

you should come out this way sometime; i would love to show you around. i may be moving before too long, though, and at the least i'll be out and traveling a bit next spring.

[signifier.livejournal.com]

Hunting for ginger ale!... (And yes, that's a happy memory for me.)

[iridium.livejournal.com]

oh, i quite enjoyed it. *laugh* i was a little queasy, but wandering around through the night-time was much fun.

thank you!

also...i did catch up on all my email-replies to you, right? *poke poke*

[simplykimberly.livejournal.com]

I'll go with something very recent, since, well, I have to!

You brought ALREADY SHELLED pomegranate seeds to craft night! And they were FABULOUS with cheesecake! Yay!

[iridium.livejournal.com]

mmmm...yeah. that cheesecake was delicious.
i do very much want to try out courtney's honey-mouse-with-pomegranates sometime soon.

thank you.